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Climate-Related Vulnerability Assessment Toward Disaster Risk Reduction: Insight from Pakistan

  • Hafiz Waqar Abbas and Xuesong Guo EMAIL logo
Published/Copyright: August 21, 2023

Abstract

Globally, climate-related disasters (CRDs) have become a common phenomenon in the last few decades, increasing vulnerability and causing disaster mortality. To manage disaster risk, the global Sendai Framework for disaster risk reduction (SFDRR) provides a solid action plan for disaster risk reduction (DRR) considering all the dimensions of vulnerability. However, countries are still less receptive at the local level to adopting the SFDRR. Also, the global research community did not explore vulnerability features based on the Sendai Framework nor integrated such features with the four priorities of SFDRR. Based on the case of Pakistan, this study seeks to bridge the gap through three objectives. The first objective of the study is to identify the vulnerability features cited in the SFDRR. In addition, the research aims to develop a new vulnerability model by integrating SFDRR’s four priorities. As a second objective, it is intended to develop a decision support framework for ranking and evaluating each of the SFDRR priority action areas under local conditions. A third objective is to assess the impact of climate-induced environmental, socioeconomic and political vulnerabilities on climate-driven mortality. To meet these three different objectives, the authors have adopted a multi-method approach by using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA) and binary logistic regression method (BLRM). Based on the assessment, the authors suggested some policy implications.


Corresponding author: Xuesong Guo, Ph.D., School of Public Policy and Administration, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi, China, E-mail:

Funding source: The National Natural Science Foundation of China

Award Identifier / Grant number: No. 72274151

Funding source: Undergraduate Teaching Reform Research Project of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2023.

Acknowledgment

The authors are grateful to all teachers, colleagues for their valuable suggestions.

  1. Research funding: This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 72274151) and Undergraduate Teaching Reform Research Project of Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2023.

  2. Conflicts of Interest: The authors declare no potential conflict of interest.

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Received: 2021-06-22
Accepted: 2023-06-12
Published Online: 2023-08-21

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